Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:22:01 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed... Message-ID: <86hbsflnva.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20091127083304.GA8618@slackbox.xs4all.nl> (Roland Smith's message of "Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:33:04 %2B0100") References: <1259283983.92302.23.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20091127030601.CAB2C1CC0E@ptavv.es.net> <20091127055757.GA75657@thought.org> <20091127083304.GA8618@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> writes: > It is possible, but not easy. Upgrading from 7.x to 8.0 on the same > architecture is not that hard IMHO. Upgrading from i386 to amd64 on the s= ame > release is doable but tricky; you need a spare root partition to install = the > amd64 binaries. Not at all, just make a backup of /etc, extract the amd64 dist on top of your existing system, then restore whichever parts of /etc got clobbered. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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